The wipers are fighting hard against the heavy cloudburst. On the horizon, rising like neon-pink claviluxes, are Big Band evergreens. But what's behind that field over there? That must be the source of this eerie glow. So finally, I stop the car. There is music on the radio while I'm fighting my way through the thicket. All of a sudden, the rain stops. What's going on? The light starts flickering and seems to be everywhere, now.

I found myself surrounded by at least two million ducks forming a circle around me. And they did not look very friendly at all. Suddenly, their leader came forward. "Quaaaaaak Quaaak!!!!!" I could have closed the studio window. They are getting ready to attack me. I get the shopping trolley token out of my pocket that Jake Fairley gave to me. He said it would protect me if I get into trouble. A flash of lighting. Feathers everywhere. Smoke.

Germany's Sebastian Riedl aka Basteroid presents his first full-length CD on Areal Records. He started his music career in 2000 when he founded the label Areal Records together with his two friends Michael Schwanen (Metope) and Matthias Klein (Konfekt, Welt Zwei) -- a good basis for all his future releases. Apart from his work released on Sender Records and a number of remixes, he also performs live all around the world, spreading his unmistakable sounds among the people. On Upsets Ducks, he freely plays all the different music styles that he is influenced by. The result is a happy mix of trance, funk, rock, gongs and bangs. Half of this record was created in Schaerding, Upper Austria, where the whole duck population regularly got upset (that's where the title comes from) by one track in particular, but also by the rest of this record.

Double LP version. Germany's Sebastian Riedl aka Basteroid presents his first full-length on Areal Records. He started his music career in 2000 when he founded the label Areal Records together with his two friends Michael Schwanen (Metope) and Matthias Klein (Konfekt, Welt Zwei) -- a good basis for all his future releases. Apart from his work released on Sender Records and a number of remixes, he also performs live all around the world, spreading his unmistakable sounds among the people. On Upsets Ducks, he freely plays all the different music styles that he is influenced by. The result is a happy mix of trance, funk, rock, gongs and bangs. Half of this record was created in Schaerding, Upper Austria, where the whole duck population regularly got upset (that's where the title comes from) by one track in particular, but also by the rest of this record.

Finally they got out of the car, miles out of town where he should have his last cigarette. Rob knew far too well why he was here now. Assumably, no one could have missed the target person at the disco. It was all due to unfavorable circumstances or at least bad timing. The lights at the disco, the strobe that went on the very moment when he was about to beat. Those many hands that suddenly went up in the air, the rapidly drifting fog. Really bad timing. And now he finds himself smoking his last cigarette, next to this metal head in a black suit buzzing impatiently. "Daa, daa, dii, da, daaa, dadidadadadida."

When the storm started and the sky turned pink, the little boy was hiding under a palm tree with his mp3 player ready for recording. "All this noise," he said to himself, "I must record this." And it worked! For seven minutes, he managed to record the constantly rising buzz that turned up together with the thunderstorm and of course, disappeared again. And when the sky cleared almost instantaneously, a bizarre yellow figure turned up, floating in mid-air above the ground. Unfortunately, the recording capacity was exhausted. What a pity, because the weird little man with his sparkling red eyes and dressed up in a superman costume started talking in a resounding vocoder effect: "Keep this message from the gigaverse. It shall help you when the time is ripe, best would be around 3 o'clock in the morning!"

Cologne-based Areal co-partner Sebastian Riedl gives you the minimal remedy for your hungry belly. First we put the schnitzel in the flour from both sides, then we dip it deep into the eggs and finally into the bread crumbs. We place it in a hot pan and pay attention to the fine white noise and that there is no cracking from a pan that is too hot. Flip them, ready - the coat of bread crumbs should have big bubbles that come off a little bit - it is recommended to squeeze at least half a lemon on every piece! Enjoy.

2002 release. "Second Release from Areal's Basteroid. On the A-Side a typical Basteroid livetrack [aggrobatik] including a heavy bonus-bassline in the second half. On the B-Side two different tracks, which anyway make the interpret's theme accessable to the audience."

"Travel broadens the mind, they say. Sender buddy and Areal front man Basteroid got waylaid by a Russian taxi driver's mysterious understanding of vodka, and let the Kremlin inspire him to write a techno symphony, whose raw power shakes the foundations of sound as we know it. The majestic surges of techno reveal previously-explored depths of Basteroid that just blow our hearts and minds away. On the B-side 'Schicking data per post' bell chimes and the melancholy patter of 'Dawaj Dawaj' are melted down and worked round into Sender's trademark churlish whirls of Basteroid funk sounds. Smooth and cool on the palate like a sip of vodka from a water bottle."